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Rain, 278, 280

Rakóczi, Francis, 250–1

Rambaut, Philip, 441

Ramillies, battle of (1706):

Danish dragoons at, 202

Cadogan reports on French deployment at, 217

pursuit following, 220

Marlborough’s tactics at, 242

French manoeuvres at, 286

deployment and engagement, 332–47, 479

casualties, 348

effects of victory, 349, 356

Allied guns at, 478

fought on Sunday, 478–9

Rantzau, Major General Josef, 382, 384, 385

Rastatt, Treaty of (1714), 459

Ratisbon, 251

Regency Act (1705), 327, 329

Regiments (British):

Bevil Skelton’s, 79

Black Watch, 471

Calthorp’s, 75

Cameronians (Fergusson’s), 165, 340

Coldstream Guards, 48, 50, 122, 124, 161

Duchess’s, 89

Duke of Berwick’s, 140

Duke of St Alban’s Horse, 148

Duke of York’s, 79

Earl of Arran’s, 211

Earl of Dumbarton’s (
later
Orkney’s), 114, 118, 120–1, 126, 157, 274

Earl of Peterborough’s, 79

Foot Guards (1st), 8, 49–50, 54–5, 122, 124–6, 136, 256, 267, 272, 274, 292, 405, 428

Harrisons’s, 308

Hepburn’s, 52n

Hill’s Foot, 247

Holland, 89

Horse Grenadiers, 116, 117

Horse Guards (‘Oxford Blues’), 50, 111, 114, 116, 122, 148, 158

Irish Dragoons, 347

King’s Own Regiment of Dragoons, 101

Kirke’s, 125

Leigh’s, 209

Life Guards, 50, 52, 54, 100, 116, 161

Lord Arlington’s, 89

Lord Baltimore’s, 209

Lord Forbes’s, 155

Lord High Admiral’s Foot, 61, 69–70

Lord Orrery’s, 217

Lord Raby’s Dragoons, 246

Meredith’s, 340

Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, 51

Queen Dowager’s, 111

Queen’s, 367

Queen’s Royal Regiment (2nd of Foot), 51

Royal Dragoons, 120, 124, 148

Royal English, 52, 79

Royal Fusiliers, 162

Royal Regiment of Ireland, 133, 159, 199, 428–9

Royal Scots (1st of Foot), 52

Scots Dragoons, 347

Sir Edward Hales’s, 132

Sir John Fenwick’s, 73

Sir Thomas Prendergast’s, 372

Thomas Erle’s, 210

Trelawney’s, 114, 116, 125, 135

Wade’s, 307

Wallis’s Dragoons, 379

Webb’s, 390

Reichenbach, river, 282

Reynell, Sir Thomas, 42

Rheinberg, 230

Rhine, river, 224, 250, 370–1, 452

Rhineland:

French invade, 146

Richards, Colonel Michael, 280

Richmond, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of, 464

Ridley, Grace, 475

Riley, John, 25

Rivers, General Richard Savage, 4th Earl (
earlier
Viscount Colchester), 136, 170, 174, 209, 350, 414, 461

roads, 14–15

Robethon, John de, 260, 261, 467

Rochester, Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of:

staff of office, 13, 180–1

on James Duke of York’s Catholicism, 95

works with Godolphin, 100–1

negotiates Anne’s marriage with Prince George, 106

on Earl of Dorset, 154

and Anne’s parliamentary grant, 164

mediates between Anne and Mary, 178

and Anne’s ill treatment in Bath, 180–1

and refusal of parliamentary grant to Marlborough, 234

refuses move to Ireland, 234

Rochford, William Henry Zulestein, 1st Earl of, 172

Rocques, Guillaume Le Vasseur des, 401

Rodger, N.A.M., 69, 145, 189, 441

Romney, Henry Sidney, Earl of, 137, 142, 179, 195

Ronché, Father, 98

Rooke, Admiral Sir George, 298

Ross, Lieutenant General Charles, 448

Roundway Down, battle of (1643), 40

Rowe, Brigadier Archibald, 264, 291–2

Rowney, Thomas, 301

Rowse, A.L., 63

Roxborough, Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of, 99

Royal Hospitals (Chelsea and Kilmainham), 90, 306–8, 447

Royal James
(ship), 68

Ruffy, Major General Anne-Marie-Louis, comte de, 372

Rummersheim, 420

Rupert, Prince Palatine, 41, 61, 78

Rupert’s Land, 459

Russell, Edward
see
Orford, Earl of

Russell, Colonel John, 49–50, 54

Russell, William, Lord, 17, 91, 93

Ruvigny, marquis de
see
Galway, 1st Earl of

Ruyter, Admiral Michiel Adriaanszoon de, 68, 78

Ryder, Dudley, 472

Rye House conspiracy (1683), 92

Rysbrack, William, 477

Ryswick, Treaty of (1697), 188, 192, 249

Sabin, Philip, 46

Sabine, Brigadier Joseph, 207, 382, 384

Sacheverell, Henry, 414, 438

Sackville, Major General Edward, 184

St Albans, Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of, 62

St Amand, 455

St-Eloois-Vijve, 451

St Ghislain, 423

St-Hilaire, Lieutenant General, 390

St John, Henry
see
Bolingbroke, Viscount

St Michael
(ship), 68

St Omer, 454

St Paul’s Cathedral:

Fifth Monarchy men occupy, 49

St Paul’s School:

Marlborough attends, 46

St Ruth, marquis de, 16, 170–1

Saint Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 383

St Vaast-la Hougue
see
La Hougue

St-Venant, 393, 419, 451

Salee:

corsairs, 60

Salisbury
(French ship), 215

Salisbury
, HMS, 215

Salisch, Lieutenant General Ernst Willem von, 324

Sancroft, William, Archibishop of Canterbury, 131, 178

Sandby, Chaplain Josias, 8, 272–3, 278, 289, 296

Sandwich, Edward Montagu (or Mountagu), 1st Earl of, 68

Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of, 234

Sandys, Captain (of Blues), 137

Santlow, Hester, 481

Sars Wood, Flanders, 422–4, 426–8, 431

Sarsfield, Patrick, 148–9, 169–70

Saunders, Stephen, 135

Savage, Richard
see
Rivers, 4th Earl

Saverne, 249

Savoy, Eugène, Prince of
see
Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan

Savoy, Victor Amadeus, Duke of
see
Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy

Saxe, Marshal Maurice, comte de, 205

Saxe-Gotha, Frederick II, Prince of, 359

Scarborough, Frances, Countess of, 23

Scarburgh, Sir Charles, 98

Scarpe, river, 451–3, 456–7

Schaerken, 385

Scheldt, river, 39, 362, 377, 380, 383, 397, 402, 422, 453

Schellenberg, the, Donauwörth, 269–76, 306, 479

Schomberg, Meinhard, 3rd Duke of, and Duke of Leinster, 130, 157–9, 167–8, 171, 195, 248, 464

Schulenberg, General Lewin Friedrich, Count, 401, 426, 430

Schultz, Lieutenant General Jobst, Baron of Scholten, 338, 344

Schwenningen, 281–2, 287

Scotland:

Union with England (1707), 31, 327, 353, 356

troops raised, 50

Covenanters in, 93–4

James Duke of York in, 93–5

Test Act, 95

Mackay’s campaign in, 172, 456

and Disarming Acts, 471

Jacobite rebellions (1715 & 1745), 471

Scots brigade, 426

Scott, Sir Edward, 170

Scott, Colonel Robert, 79

Scouller, R.E., 307, 367

Sedgemoor, battle of (1686), 17, 111, 119–25, 127–8

Sedley, Catherine, 47, 87–8, 154

Sedley, Sir Charles, 87

Sensée, river, 452–4

Septennial Act (1716), 31

Settlement, Act of (1701), 192, 468

Seven Bishops:

conflict with James II, 33, 131

Sévigné, Marie, marquise de, 66

Seymour, Conway, 21

Seymour, Sir Edward, 32

Seymour, General, 204

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 91–2

Shaw, Captain Alexander, 21

Shaw, Ensign Hugh, 21

Shaw, Sir John, 21

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 19

Sheriffmuir, battle of (1715), 471

Shovell, Admiral Sir Cloudesley, 359, 365

Shrewsbury, Adelhida, Duchess of, 29, 472

Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, 12th Earl (
later
Duke) of:

invites William to England, 137

and Anne’s claims for grant, 164

stands bail for Marlborough, 180

friendship with Marlborough, 181

on English methods in War of League of Augsburg, 182

and failed attack on Brest, 183, 185

reappointed secretary of state, 183

admits to helping Middleton in plot against William, 187

and William’s attitude to Marlborough, 191

and unpopularity of Slangenburg, 324

supports Harley, 442

appointments on death of Anne, 469

Shrimpton, Brigadier John, 264

Sidney, Henry
see
Romney, Earl of

siege warfare, 70–5

Sierck, 310

Silesia, 358

Silly, comte de, 282–3

Silvère, Colonel de la, 296

Sinclair, John, Master of, 21, 208

Sinsheim, battle of (1674), 79–80

Slangenburg, Lieutenant General Frederik Johan Baer, Heer van:

differences with Marlborough, 220, 243, 320, 322–3, 325–6

in attempt on Antwerp, 245

Coehoorn falls out with, 246, 318

proposes advance on Louvain, 316

reputation in United Provinces, 324

Slankamen, battle of (1691), 251

slaves:

agreement under Treaty of Utrecht, 458

smallpox, 16

Smith, John, 443

Smollett, Tobias, 477

Smyrna convoy:

ambushed (1693), 182–3

Snyder, Henry L., 6, 101, 413

Soignies, 204

Solms, Heinrich Maastricht, Count, 172, 181–2

Somers, John, Baron, 28, 35n, 364, 413, 415, 444

Somerset, Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of, 32, 138, 177, 205, 207, 414, 442, 475

Somerset, Elizabeth, Duchess of, 23

Somerset, William Seymour, 3rd Duke of, 113–16, 131

South Sea Bubble, 444, 473

Southampton, Charles FitzRoy, 1st Duke of (and 2nd Duke of Cleveland), 62

Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of, 49

Southwell, Elizabeth Cromwell, Lady, 257, 481

Southwold Bay, battle of (1672), 68–9, 77

Spaar, General, 243, 429

Spagge, Sir Edward, 61

Spain:

campaign in, 208–9, 246, 329–30, 350, 356–7, 360, 362–3

in peace terms, 410, 420, 435, 441, 452, 458–9

Spanish Netherlands:

in War of League of Augsburg, 181–2

and Spanish succession, 193

occupation and extent, 196, 198

France loses territory, 356

Dutch unpopularity in, 361

governed by Anglo-Dutch condominium, 368, 371

campaign of 1708 in, 369

Marlborough offered governorship, 421

see also
Flanders

Spanish Succession, War of (1701–13):

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